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Society books

July 2024

  • Large pink brain looks like a tree against a blue background. Two people in white suits hold a ladder that another person is climbing into the canopy. Another person sweeps up fallen debris

    The big idea
    The big idea: why your brain needs other people

  • Josephine Butler fought for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s.

    Sexed by Susanna Rustin review – the fraught battle for feminism

June 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: Ghislaine Maxwell trial in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo

    The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – a voice for the powerless

  • Women fighting for their rights during the 1970 s

    Sexed by Susanna Rustin review – a new history of British feminism

  • Our vivid teenage years can define our adulthood.

    Book of the day
    Coming of Age by Lucy Foulkes review – the truth about teenagers

  • Young men at La Caverne, a Soho bar and club, July 1955.

    Book of the day
    Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 review – when being gay meant going underground

  • Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • Book of the day
    Straight Acting by Will Tosh review – out on stage

  • The Atomic Human by Neil Lawrence review – return of the Terminator

  • I’m an expert on adolescence: here’s why a smartphone ban isn’t the answer, and what we should do instead

  • Book of the day
    The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy review – two decades of fire

  • Book of the day
    Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell review – a roadmap to the new normal

  • The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah – review

  • If You Live to 100, You Might As Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo review – life begins at 80

May 2024

  • The US-Mexico border wall in Campo, California.

    Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer review – seeking sanctuary

  • Fast by the Horns explores the 1980 riot in St Pauls.

    Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie review – Bristol’s burning

  • Green Ampelmann pedestrian signal on a street in the former East Berlin in Germany<br>2BWACYX Green Ampelmann pedestrian signal on a street in the former East Berlin in Germany

    Book of the day
    Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – the past isn’t a foreign place

  • Illustration of a mantrap with a speech bubble inside

    The big idea
    The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking

  • Book of the day
    The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani review – overcoming ‘permacrisis’

  • Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles review – the perils of failing to toe the party line

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